Halloween 2009

This is our first Halloween in our own house with our puppy! It is awesome! We carved pumpkins the night before Halloween.

An Evening of Witchy Delight!

This year for Halloween, I hosted a witches party with Team UGLY. We invited Erin to come and be an honorary member. She is so nice! We all dressed as witches and played games and watched Charlie Brown. The food was great, too (always important). Even Stella dressed up as a witch! Here are a few pictures:

Cascade Springs

Today we went up to Cascade Springs in American Fork Canyon. It was a lot of fun. We took Stella and she was so well behaved! She didn't bite her leash at all, and she walked along with us really well. She had so much fun going to a new place. She was scared to go over the bridges at first, but then she got over it. We drove the Alpine Loop, which is a lot longer than I realized!! It was beautiful, though, with all the fall colors.

Puppy Stella!!

Today we went to pick out our puppy. There were 4 girls to choose from, and they are still so small that it was hard to choose. We couldn't see their personalities too much because they were so sleepy. But the lady said that this one is really cuddly but also playful too, so we thought she would be good. Plus she is super cute!! We still have to wait 3 weeks. We will go get her on September 4th.

She's gonna be preston's little baby!

Puppies!!

Preston and I have been wanting to get a dog for the longest time! Now that we have our own house we can finally get a puppy. We have been looking at different breeds and decided we love the Shiba Inu dogs. They are Japanese and are so cute!! We found some that were for sale on KSL, and decided to put a deposit down for a female. She was born on July 18th and opened her eyes on the 1st of August. There were 4 females and one male, and we get first pick of which one we want. The owner just sent us pictures of all the females, and they are all adorable! We will go up in a few weeks to pick which one we want. I am planning on bringing her home on September 4th, labor day weekend. I can't wait! I went to the library yesterday and got a bunch of puppy training books. She is going to be the most well-behaved dog ever!! (I can hope, can't I?)

We have been trying to think of a good name for her, and think we finally came up with one we both like...Stella. You must watch the episode of Seinfeld where Elaine is on muscle relaxants (Stella!!!) It is so funny. We thought of that name and then about an hour later that episode of Seinfeld came on, so it was decided upon. As long as it fits her personality.

Mom

Dad

Puppy 1

Puppy 2

Puppy 3

Puppy 4

Christensen Family Reunion!

We have a big family reunion every other year, and it is always a blast! This year we went to Moab over the 24th of July and went river rafting, hiking, etc. Preston and I had to go a few days late, so we missed out on the hummer ride, but that's ok. We had a blast. Its always fun to see my cousins that I don't get to see very often.
One really fun part of the trip was watching some old home videos from when my dad was young. He got them transferred from 8mm film to a dvd and we all sat around and watched them and laugh. My favorite part was when they were doing the twist. Ryan and Jordan Young also came from Tennessee and stayed a few days. They were so much fun to have there. They put on a show for us with Ryan on drums and Jordan on Guitar and vocals. It was about 10:00 at night and I was afraid someone was going to call the cops, but they never came. Grandma Blackgburn is 93, and she is still as spry as ever! My favorite part was when she practically climbed over the couch to get to her seat! She just makes me laugh. While we went river rafting, Grandma, Grandma B, Mike and the kids went on a Jetboat tour. Grandpa came rafting with us, and we had a good time. There were plenty of water fights. On our raft, we went over a rapid and Mom, Kellie, and a mother and daughter from another group fell off the raft and had a kind of scary experience. The other mom cut her eye, but everyone was okay and we kept going and had a good rest of the day.

July 4th/Moving

I've been so busy lately. We closed on our house on July 1st, 2009. It was awesome. We spent the next few days painting, and our fourth of July was spent in our house painting, too. It was kind of sad because the fourth is my favorite holiday, but I was ok missing it for my house. We got moved in the next day and are loving it! I will post some pictures later.